A SWAT team, helicopter, state troopers, detectives, K9 units, crime scene technicians and ballistics technicians all moved to hunt for the shooter.

A day later, he confessed he made up the whole thing. Johnson admitted he shot at his own car and crashed it himself.

"There is no gunman at large in or around the town," Millis Police Sgt. William Dwyer said at the press conference in September. "Our main reason for coming out here so quickly was to make sure the public knew they were safe."